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Sources: Apple plans a smart-home display-like mode in iOS 17, with notifications and information like weather, when an iPhone is locked and in landscape mode — Apple Inc. is planning a new interface for iPhones that shows information such as calendar appointments, the weather and notifications …
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Sources: some Meta employees say important work has been at a standstill and the company's 2023 product roadmap is undecided, as its final round of layoffs ends — Meta Platforms Inc. employees received news Wednesday of the final round of previously announced job cuts …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The US Treasury sanctions four entities and one individual over North Korea's “army” of illicit IT workers, often based in Russia and China, and cyberattacks — The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions today against four entities …
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| New York Times: |
Sources and documents: TikTok employees have regularly posted user data on messaging tool Lark, used by ByteDance, leading some staff to raise privacy concerns — Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents.| Philip Bump / Washington Post: |
Elon Musk's intent in buying Twitter apparently was not only to dismantle a traditional media tool but also to turn Twitter into a right-wing media heavyweight — It was only a year ago that Elon Musk, then simply the guy who was hoping to buy Twitter, insisted that his politics sat squarely at the center of the national spectrum.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Surface Pro X owners say the laptop's cameras stopped working this week; a workaround suggests the problem could be related to an expired security certificate — Surface Pro X owners are reporting that the cameras on their devices have stopped working this week.
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| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Poolside, co-founded by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner to build a “subsystem” for AI services like GitHub Copilot and Replit's Ghostwriter, raised a $26M seed — Warner steps back from Redpoint to lead Poolside. Redpoint leads seed round. — ∙ Paid
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| Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: |
European gaming giant Embracer says a “groundbreaking strategic partnership” worth $2B+ collapsed and slashes its 2023 profit forecast; EMBRAC-B drops 40%+ — One of Europe's largest gaming companies has slashed its profit forecast for the year after a planned partnership fell through worth more than $2 billion in revenue.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US chip export controls put the US tech industry at risk of “enormous damage”, as Chinese companies start building their own chips — Jensen Huang tells lawmakers to be ‘thoughtful’ about imposing more export controls on Beijing
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
The EU General Court dismisses Meta's challenge to EU regulators seeking vast amounts of data to build an antitrust case; Meta first opposed the request in 2020 — Meta Platforms Inc. lost a court fight with European Union regulators who demanded vast amounts of data to help build an antitrust case against the social-network giant.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Six weeks after Amazon demoed its generative AI tech with an unusually vague announcement and just one testimonial, most cloud customers still don't have access — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud customers are clamoring to get their hands on the ChatGPT-style technology the company unveiled six weeks ago.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Sudowrite's Story Engine, a generative AI tool for writing long-form fiction novels that works better than expected but still has big limitations — Thoughts are swarming my mind like a nest of cyber-rats. … Last week, generative fiction tool Sudowrite launched a system for writing whole novels.
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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony sold ~600K PlayStation VR2 units in the headset's first six weeks of availability after its February 22 launch, 8% more than for the PSVR's first six weeks — PlayStation VR2's early sales are ahead of what its PS4-powered predecessor managed, Sony has claimed.
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| Misha Savic / Bloomberg: |
A Montenegro court overturns a lower court's decision that would have let Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon be released on €400K bail; Do Kwon remains in jail — A Montenegrin court has annulled a lower court's decision under which former crypto mogul and Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon would be released on bail.| Bloomberg: |
Istanbul-based AI marketing startup Insider raised $105M at a nearly $2B valuation, up from $1.22B in its March 2022 Series D, taking its total funding to $274M — Insider, a Turkish artificial intelligence-backed marketing platform, was valued at almost $2 billion in a funding round …
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| Reuters: |
Sources, reports, and analysis: Chinese hackers targeted the Kenyan government from late 2019 until at least 2022 to gather information on debt owed to China — Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions …
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| Stephen Witt / Rest of World: |
An influx of digital nomads, about half from the US, to Medellín, Mexico City, and other cities boosts local economies, but locals complain of being priced out — Cities from Canggu to Medellín are welcoming tech workers, but locals complain they're being priced out.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
AMD's $269 Radeon RX 7600 and Nvidia's $399 RTX 4060 Ti both disappoint for 1440p gaming, are more suited for 1080p, but offer good performance at their prices — I wish 1440p GPUs were more mainstream after years of 1080p dominance. … I'm disappointed.
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| Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: |
An April 2023 study suggests that the human brain's neurons and artificial neural networks with general-purpose neurons process language sounds in similar ways — Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills. — How do brains learn?
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